It's Your Fault!

Is your team pointing the finger at one another? Does development hold responsible the business and is the business accusing development? Is everyone too busy pointing the finger to address the problems? Discover how to recognize blame and move beyond it to foster a safe culture. Come to this interactive talk to discover ways to change culture, leave with tools to help you initiate change immediately, and learn from observations and experiments from real experiences with various teams in different organizations in different size businesses.

Jason Little / April Jefferson - Creating Alignment for Agile Change

schedule 3 years ago

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60 Mins

Talk

Intermediate

Sometimes people in organizations feel as though Agile has been pushed on them. They end up going through the motions, without any real sense of ownership of what they are doing. Instead of actually implementing meaningful changes, organizations end up doing "Agile in name only" by slapping Agile labels on existing processes. Then Agile is blamed for "not working". This isn't an Agile problem. It's an alignment and ownership problem. In this session, through theory and multiple real-world case studies, you'll learn how to co-create change by involving the people affected by the change in the design of the change.

Tom Bellinson - The Odd Couple: Process Management and Agile Design

schedule 3 years ago

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45 Mins

Talk

Intermediate

Agilistas are often quick to dismiss any practice that looks like a remnant of the “waterfall days.” Process management tends to be one of those end-to-end activities that looks, smells and tastes like a waterfall initiative, but don’t be fooled!

Process management is a vital part of preparing the ground for a successful agile design effort. There are certainly times when process is not so important to software design, but if you’re building business software, it is foundational. In this environment, good process management doesn’t guarantee good design, but lack of it makes the probability of good design less likely.